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Darcey

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Hi,

I am looking to upgrade from my:
Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366)

Machine usage:
1. Work (Development tools, photoshop, flash, 3D programming etc)
2. Games, dvd watching, tv and music

Now here's the thing, I've been following the progress on the Oculus Rift and will be purchasing one of them about 0.0000001 seconds after the commercial version becomes available, which I expect to be either Q1, Q2 or Q3 2014. So I thought good time to upgrade.

So I've done some reading about haswell, ivy bridge-e and broadwell and would like your views on what to wait for and what would be best for my needs. Work comes 1st but I want them games to play well too. I'm not really interested in overclocking.

I am estimating either a GTX780 or 2 of them or other single card if nvidia brings out the GTX880 by then for GFX.

Will broadwell be the best choice on cpu? What socket will it be? Will there be newer more cutting edge mobos about for these chips?

The upgrade will be complete new system, custom built, but not for overclocking. Must be capable of multi screen gaming and must max out settings for the oculus rift.

Any thoughts for:

1. What CPU to hold out for?
2. What Mobo chipset to get?
3. What's this already fitted cpu to mobo lark? Will this affect me?
4. What GFX card? Nvidia roadmap?

Thanks
 
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jaguarskx

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There is not much of a performance gain going from Sandy-E to Ivy-E. Based on prices at Newegg.com I would simply buy the Ivy-E i7-4930k instead of the Sandy-E i7-3930k. The Ivy-E is only $10 more and is clocked 200MHz higher. Additionally, the performance gain due to the updated architecture is I think 4% - 5% for the socket 2011 CPUs.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116492
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116939

As for Broadwell... it seems they are meant for embedded solutions. Intel plans for a refresh of Haswell next year based on one of Intel's Roadmaps, but it is still referred to as Haswell. I have no idea what is installed for the refresh. The next Intel CPU people waiting for (including myself; though I'll likely get Haswell initially for my primary PC, then move to my HTPC) is Skylake in 2015. Expectations are significant change to the architecture and a return to double digits performance increases.

Not sure what chipsets are available for socket 2011 CPU since I don't really follow those CPUs.

"What's this already fitted cpu to mobo lark? Will this affect me?"
If you are referring to embedded CPUs, then that just means you cannot build your own custom PC / workstation around those CPUs (Broadwell supposedly). You must purchase a pre-built rig, then you can customize by adding to it. Naturally you will not be able to swap out the motherboard.

I don't really follow GPU roadmaps, but considering the GTX 7xx series came out not very long ago, the GTX 8xx may be released in Spring or Summer 2014. But you can Google for rumors.
 
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